On Jan 23 13:59, Houder wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Just curious if there is a reason ... > > I was able to extract cygpath.exe from cygwin-inst-20160121.tar.xz > (snapshots) > in order to test your last modification to cygpath.cc. No problem here. > > However, when examining the contents of the archive, I was surprised to find > the SAME version of cygpath.exe at least three times ... > > The size of cygwin-inst-.tar.xz (and cygwin-src-.tar.xz) has > grown > (suddenly) by a factor of 3 or 4 since 2015-07-20 ... > > The same applies to winsup-src-.tar.xz (since 2016-01-15) ... > > In all cases it is because the archive contains the SAME version of a file > at > least three times (as far as I can tell). > > To summarize: No, I am not reporting a problem here; I am just _curious_ as > to > why these archive are so much bigger than they (apparently) need to be ... I found out why this happens, I just don't know why it only occurs since 2015-07-20. The reason is the script is using an expression along the lines of find ... | tar -T - --no-recursion -cjf ... It turns out that the --no-recursion option only works for me, if it comes *prior* to the expression specifying the filenames to archive. That is, I had to change the script to use find ... | tar --no-recursion -T - -cjf ... instead. Funny enough, `info tar' still contains an example using the original order... Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat